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Posts tagged ‘Deborah Lipstadt’

yesterday evening (wednesday 3rd), 9.24-9.28pm, on bbc world service radionewshour (presented by julian marshall) includes …

“The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has been roundly condemned for a speech he gave this week in which he suggested that the persecution of Jews which resulted in the Holocaust was due to their own social behaviour.”

today (wednesday 12th), 7.15-7.19am, 8.03-8.05am, and 5.15-5.24pm, on bbc radio 4today (presented by sarah montague), and pm (presented by eddie mair), include …

“The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, has been criticised for questioning why Russia would want to back President Assad of Syria – when even Hitler ‘didn’t sink to using chemical weapons’.
Journalists at the briefing pointed out that poison gas was used to kill Jews and others in the Holocaust. Mr Spicer has since apologised for using an inappropriate and insensitive comparison.”

“• Professor Deborah Lipstadt was sued by the historian David Irving for calling him a holocaust denier.
As a new film about the trial is released she tells us why she thinks the judgment is even more relevant in our ‘post-truth’ times.”

this morning (friday 27th), 8.44-8.51am, on bbc radio 4 (repeated sunday afternoon and evening, 2.17pm and 9.36pm, on <b>newshour</b> on bbc world service radio)today (presented by justin webb and nick robinson) includes …

“Today the film Denial opens across the country, it’s a dramatized version of the libel trial 17 years ago when David Irving sued the American academic Deborah Lipstadt.”